Machine for pressing cloth



(No Model.)

D. GESSNER.

MACHINE FOR PRESSING CLOTH.

No. 393.004. Patented Nov. 20, 1888.

#5 I v- I UNITED STATES PATENT O FIGEa DAVID GESSNER, OF VVOROESTER, MASSACHUSETTS.

MACHINE FOR PRESSING CLOTH.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 393,004, dated November 20,1888.

Application filed June 9,1888.

T0 aZZ whom it may concern;

Be it known that I, 'DAvii) GESSNER, of Worcester, in the State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Machines for Pressing Cloth, of which the following is a specification.

In my application serially numbered 270,825, filed April 16, 1888, I have shown a cloth-pressing machine in which two bed-plates are arranged to co-operate with the main cylinder.

Mypresent machine is similar to that shown insaidapplication,exceptingthat itisprovided with an additional bed-plate co-operating with the main cylinder, and suitable mechanism for actuating the same, and certain other features of construction, which will be made apparent from the following description.

Figure l is an end elevation of a portion of a cloth-pressing machine having my invention applied thereto. Fig. 2 is a detail showing a portion of the third bed-plate and the mechanism by which itis actuated. Fig. 3 isa detail showing the arm or lever q as adjustable in length.

a and b are two sections of the end frame, which are bolted together at c. The lower portion, a, is constructed with the openings (Z (1, within which the bearings of the brush or brushes (shown in the application aforesaid) may be placed, and through which the brush or brushes may be inserted endwise. The upper section contains the opening 0, which may receive the bearings for an upper cylinder,and through which opening the upper cylinder may be inserted endwise. When the two sections are bolted together, they incloseahorseshoe-shaped opening, 7, which is adapted to receive in its center the bearing of the main cylinder g, on the sides of which are the bedplates h and h. The journal 9 of the main cylinder 9 is mounted in a bearing arranged upon the top of the spur i, projecting up into the horseshoeshaped opening f, and on each side of this spur the horseshoe-shaped opening projects downward, so as to provide the openingsf f opposite the ends of the bed-plates h and h. Thus,with the exception of the narrow space occupied by the spur 1' below the bearings of the main cylinder, the cylinder and the two bed-plates h and h and the pressing-surfaces between the cylinder and the same are all exposed through the horseshoe-shaped Serial No. 276,652. (No model.)

opening f in the end frame of the machine. The bed-plates h and h are supported by the hangersj j, in the manner fully described in said application. The said bed-plates are likewise actuated by the rods 7c it from the lever Z, which is pivoted upon the journal 9 of the main cylinder, (in manner preferably similar to that described in said application,) for actuating the press-plates h and h. Likewise a rod, k connected with anarm of the lever Z, may be employed for actuating a bed-plate 00- operating with asecond cylinder in the opening 6 of the frame, as shown in' said former application.

m is a bed-plate located beneath the main cylinder, having the ends of its journals squared at n, so as to slide in vertical guideways 0 and o in the frame. The bed-plate 7o thus is movable upon its journals, but will be obliged to move to and from the cylinder in a vertical line.

19 is a stirrup,which is fitted under thejournal of the bedplate m, so that the said journal can turn upon it, and which is pivoted to the end of a lever, g, which in turn is fast upon the end of the short shaft r, projecting out through the frame. In order to provide for the adjustment of the stirrup in proper position, the lever may be made in two parts, as shown in Fig. 3, forming a sliding longitudi nally-extensible joint with each other, a setscrew, q, being provided to secure the lever at any required length.

8 is a lever fixed upon the outer end of said shaft and pivoted at its extremity to the rod by which it is pivotally connected with the arm of the lever Z, as shown. Each one of the rods 7.: 70' k k is made adjustable in length by means of the right and left hand screw-threads, by which they are secured at their opposite ends, and the same is true of the hangers j j.

If it is desired to steam the cloth under pressure as it passes from one of the main bedplates to the other, the bedplate m may be furnished with a steamer connected with perforations in the face of the bedplate, from which thesteam may bethrown upon the cloth, as shown in my application serially numbered 212,702, filed September 4, 1886.

Now, in the operation of the machine, the bed-plates h and h are maintained in position by their supports upon the hangers j and j,

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and the bed-plate m is maintained in position by its connection with the lever Z, and by the guideways 0 and 0. The lever Z being connected with each of the bed-plates by the conmeeting-rods shown, by its movementall of the bed-plates will be moved to or from the cylinder simultaneously, and their positions, with reference to the cylinder, may be relatively adjusted by means of the lengthwise adj nstability of the rods. Thus the cloth in passing around the cylinder 9 will be subjected to the pressure of three bed-plates, and the pressure of the'iutermediate bed-plate may be accompanied, as before stated, with moistcning, if desired. 7

I have confined my description to the construction of the apparatus at one end of the machine for operating the bed-plates; but it will be understood that the two ends of the machine are duplicates of each other, so that a separate description of-cach will be unnecessary. I

I claim- 1. In combination with a cylinder of a clothpressing machine, three bed-plates co-operating therewith, two levers arranged at opposite ends of the eylinder,and connections between each of the bed-plates and an arm of each of said levers, substantially as described.

2. In combination with the cylinder of a cloth-pressing machine, three bed-plates cooperating therewith, two levers arranged at opposite ends of the cylinder, connections between cach of the bed-plates, and one of the arms of each of said levers, and means, sub stantially as described, whereby the length of said connections is adjustable, as set forth.

3'. In combination with the cylinder of a cloth-pressing machine, the end frames having bearings for the cylinder and guideways below the same, threebedplates co-operating therewith, one on each side and one below the same, the said bed-plates on the sides of the same being supported 'by hangers above and the said bed-plate below moving in the guideways in the end frames of the machine, substantially as described.

DAVID GESSNER. 

